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Joe Biden - Wikipedia.
"He was
elected to the
U.S. Senate from Delaware in 1972, becoming the
sixth-youngest senator in American history. Biden was a longtime member and eventually chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He opposed the
Gulf War in 1991 but supported the expansion of the NATO alliance into
Eastern Europe and its intervention in the
Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. He supported the
resolution authorizing the Iraq War in 2002 but opposed the
surge of U.S. troops in 2007. He also served as chairman of the
Senate Judiciary Committee from 1987 to 1995, dealing with issues related to drug policy, crime prevention, and civil liberties. Biden led the efforts to pass the
Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and the
Violence Against Women Act, and oversaw the contentious
U.S. Supreme Court nominations of
Robert Bork and
Clarence Thomas.
Biden was reelected six times to the U.S. Senate and was the
fourth-most senior senator when he resigned after winning the vice presidency alongside
Barack Obama in the
2008 presidential election. Obama and Biden were
reelected in 2012. As Vice President, Biden oversaw infrastructure
spending in 2009 to counteract the
Great Recession. His negotiations with congressional
Republicans helped the Obama administration pass legislation including the
2010 Tax Relief Act, which resolved a taxation deadlock; the
Budget Control Act of 2011, which resolved a
debt ceiling crisis; and the
American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, which addressed the impending
fiscal cliff. In foreign policy, Biden led the efforts to pass the
United States–Russia New START treaty; supported
military intervention in Libya, and helped formulate U.S. policy toward
Iraq through the
withdrawal of U.S. troops in 2011. Following the
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, Biden led the
Gun Violence Task Force, created to address the causes of
gun violence in the United States.